dialogo
association to promote the dialogue among cultures
p.zza gobetti, 19 - 20131 milan (italy)

OUR OBJECTIVES:

To promote the dialogue among the different cultures creating meetings and ambits of interchange where the values, ideas and beliefs of people can meet each other, not only to make one's own culture known, but also to build a dialogue among the great variety and richness of lifestyles and therefore to find the common points that, above every difference, we believe are in the heart, in the center of different peoples and persons.

"[...] The humanist attitude is common to different cultures in certain stages of their history and it is characterised by: 1- Location of the human being as the central value, 2- Affirmation of the equality of all human beings, 3- Recognition of personal and cultural diversity, 4- A tendency to develop knowledge beyond that accepted as the absolute truth, 5- Affirmation of freedom of ideas and beliefs and 6- Rejection of violence". (from the conference of Silo "Universalist Humanism")

Activities of contact and diffusion of New Humanism's ideas in the countries of origin, to create groups of people and to organize the more appropriate activities in accordance with the specific local needs.

"[...] It is at the base of society, in the places where people work and where they live that humanism must convert what are now only simple isolated protests into a conscious force oriented toward transforming the economic structures. [...]* "The real solidarity is to ensure that the masses become self-confident, wake up and organize themselves to promote projects of development really useful to themselves and not further the interests of international capital nor a few locals."*


To denounce every form of discrimination, evident or masked, because we believe that everybody has the right to choose the place and the way of life, to improve the present and build a common future.

"[...] In real democracy, all minorities must be provided with the protections that correspond to their right to representation [...] Today, minorities the world over who are the targets of xenophobia and discrimination make anguished pleas for recognition. It is the responsibility of humanists everywhere to bring this issue to the fore...".*


* from the Document of the Humanist Movement

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